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Albert Schweitzer
January 14, 1875 - September 4, 1965
Nationality: German
Category: Theologian
Subcategory: German Theologian

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

   

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

   

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

   

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

   

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

   

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

   

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

   

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

   

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

   

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

   

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

   

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

   

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

   

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

   

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

   

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

   

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

   

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

   

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

   

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

   

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